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Newbury Racecourse reported good-to-firm going in the first half of the year as punters went back to the races after the pandemic. With 15 meetings welcoming paying customers compared with only two last year, and ten behind closed doors, the number of attendants jumped from 4,400

More than a quarter of businesses reported a fall in revenues last month, with restaurants, pubs and bars in particular struggling as hard-up consumers tightened their purse strings. Data from the Office for National Statistics showed that in August 26 per cent of companies reported lower